Exa
Embeddings-based web search designed to feed retrieval pipelines and agents.
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Exa vs Elicit
Exa (Exa) and Elicit (Elicit) both sit in Search & Research. Exa is the cheaper entry point at Free tier includes $10/mo in credits. Pay-as-you-go thereafter (e.g. Search at $7/1k requests, Contents at $1/1k pages).. Elicit shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (8 vs 2). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Exa Exa | Elicit Elicit |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Search & Research | Search & Research |
| Version | Exa Agent | Research Agent |
| Entry cost | Free tier includes $10/mo in credits. Pay-as-you-go thereafter (e.g. Search at $7/1k requests, Contents at $1/1k pages). | Free tier · from $11/mo |
| Pricing tiers | Starter free · Developer free | Basic free · Plus $11 · Pro (Annual) $39 · Pro (Monthly) $49 · Scale (Annual) $89 · Scale (Monthly) $169 |
| Model stack | agentic models · embedding · Exa Agent API · Exa Auto · Exa Custom Search Models · Exa Search API · Exa Search Embedding Model · Exa Search Model · Exa Search Models · Exa Search Neural Model | Claude · Elicit Research Agent · GPT-5.2 |
| Context window | n/a | Not published |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 2 | 8 |
| Origin | Global | Global |
| Capabilities | Neural search, Contents retrieval, Websets, Answer endpoint, Research API, Web Search API, Deep Research, Structured JSON Extraction | Systematic review screening, Data extraction tables, 125M paper index, PDF chat, Report generation, Research Agent, Research Reports, Systematic Literature Reviews |
Elicit
Finds, screens and extracts data from academic literature at scale.
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